If that package is only used for testing, you can also just not merge
it into elpa and do your testing elsewhere (e.g. Travis+github).
That's what I did with Names, because the tests involved a lot of
packages from other people with a ton of changes made by me. I'm not
saying I couldn't put those inside the Elpa/package/ directory, but it
was easier this way than to worry about copyrights.

I can go into the `git' details necessary for this if you'd like.

2015-02-03 5:57 GMT+00:00 Jackson Hamilton <jackson@jacksonrayhamilton.com>:
> On the "Copyright (C) 2014 Johan Andersson", are you suggesting I change the
> copyright notice in ert-async.el myself, or that I should contact the author
> and tell him to change it?
>
> In either case that seems inappropriate.
>
> context-coloring/languages/javascript/libraries/ also includes 3 JavaScript
> libraries with their own copyright notices. These appear to be licensed
> under the FreeBSD license. Should they be handled specially?
>
> Regards,
> Jackson
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> wrote:
>>
>> > which included 247 commits. I am not sure if these should be squashed,
>> > but
>> > based on the commit log it seems like this subtree approach is how other
>> > people are managing their externally-maintained packages, so I assume it
>> > is
>> > okay to add the whole history.
>>
>> Indeed, it's OK to keep the history.
>>
>> > On top of that, I added 2 patches so that I could test ELPA locally. I
>> > was
>> > able to install my package via a "local-elpa" as described in the
>> > README.
>> > The patches for that are attached in this email.
>>
>> I think the hydra-test.el has been fixed by someone else in the
>> mean time.  As for your change:
>>
>> > +./context-coloring/libraries/ert-async.el:;; Copyright (C) 2014 Johan
>> > Andersson
>>
>> I think this change is incorrect.  IIUC this is johan.rejeep@gmail.com
>> we're talking bout, and he signed the copyright assignment forms, so
>> the line in ert-async.el should say "Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software
>> Foundation, Inc" (at which point you won't need any change to
>> copyright_exceptions).
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
>
>